It’s time for the Caturday open thread! Today’s visitor is sleeping off a dose of industrial-strength catnip, explains reader N. Fritz:

Here is Mutz (rhymes with “puts”) after his yearly teeth cleaning – at 17 years, that anesthesia really takes it out of the ol’ boi. He was so stoned when he came home, I was able to clip his nails!

The second picture is of Mutz with his rock collection, most of which came from Lake Superior. He’d like to know other Cutetropolitans and their pets collect.

Peeps, this is a special open thread, because we’re celebrating a birthday! Here’s reader Georgiana Y. with the news:

A very happy birthday to my sweet Minnie who just happens to be turning 18 on Caturday, October 19th. She has good days and bad days but she’s a tough little girl and we love her very much.

Get comfy — it’s another cozy Caturday, and here to inspire us on our relaxation journey is Hamster, from reader Tracy R., who writes:

This is Hamster lying on his special pillow (it’s an orthopedic neck pillow, and he fits right in the area down the middle) and thinking … something, I dunno.

Happy Caturday! Let’s start the weekend with a story from reader Hoosierina, another satisfied customer of the cat distribution system:

Within a month of retiring, this showed up in my backyard. Her name is Mrs. Jones, fully Mrs. Shed Jones as she was living behind it. Named so because it’s just me and now we got a thing going on (“thing” involves much finger gnawing and turbo scampering — her, not me).